275 Thevara Shivasthalam !! Thiruvedagam Thiru Edanganathar Temple !!

Jai Sriman Narayana !!

Jaya Jaya Sankara Hara Hara Sankara !!

Thiruvedagam is one of the 275 Thevara
Shivasthalam located on the river banks of Vaigai in the district of Madurai,
Tamil Nadu.This is one of the oldest
temples of Lord Shiva built by the Pandya Kings.The temple inscription reveals the contributions
made by the King Jathavarma Kulashekara Pandya, Nayaks and the emperors of
Vijayanagara.

The legend has that the King who was ruled this city
was a follower of Jainism.His wife
Thiru Mangayarkarasi was a passionate devotee of Lord Shiva; afterwards she
came to known as one of the prominent 63 Nayanmars (Shivaite Saints).During those days the belief in Shaiva
Siddhantha was drastically reduced due to the awful influence of Jains.She worried about the series of events took
place in their Kingdom and invited Thiru Gnana Sambandhar to visit Madurai, in
order to reinstate the glories of Shaiva Siddhantha.The King who was suffering from skin diseases
for long time, Sambandhar applied a handful of ashes on the affected areas and
the blisters were miraculously disappeared.The Jains were shocked at the act of Sambandhar and engaged in a serious
argument resulted in a huge conflict.Jains were shoved their scriptures containing the principles of Jainism
into fire and they burned into ashes, when Sambandhar tossed the sacred verses
of Lord, to everyone’s surprise the scriptures remained untouched.The arguments continued between them, Jains
threw their scriptures into the river and it was washed off with its current. Consequently,Sambandhar shoved a palm leaf containing one of his famous compositions
of Lord starts with ‘Vazhka Anthanar’ to
Vaigai river, surprisingly the Palm leaf plunged opposite to the current of the
water.Kulaichirai Nayanar, who was the
minister of the King, went on his horse back chasing the precious palm leaf
written by Sambandhar.Finally, the
current of the water safely landed the palm leaf on a particular place in the river
banks.Startlingly King found a Linga on
its place and he built an astounding temple to worship Lord.Thus, Sambandhar reinstate the glories of
Shaiva Shiddhantha once again on this sacred land.

It is believed that a single day’s stay and
worship of Lord Edanganathar with his consort Sugandha Kundalambikai with
utmost faith on this sacred land would yield the merit of living and serving
Lord Kasi Vishwanatha in one’s entire life period.

This temple remains open from 6.00AM to 12.00PM
in the morning and 4.30PM to 8.30 PM in the evenings.

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